Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Post-modernism and Beyond (Key Contemporary Thinkers) - Hardcover

Kellner, Douglas M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0745604803 ISBN 13: 9780745604800

Publisher: Polity Press, 1989

Synopsis

1. This is the first full–length study of Baudrillard′s work in English. Baudrillard is a very trendy figure, so this book should do well 2. Kellner has written a sober and critical introduction to the work of this much discussed French thinker.

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From the Back Cover:

Over the last two decades, Jean Baudrillard has become one of Europe′s most fashionable and controversial writers with his contributions to the analysis of modern society and culture. This new book is the first full–length study of Baudrillard′s work in English. Kellner analyses the development of Baudrillard′s ideas and assesses their contribution to contemporary debates. He discusses Baudrillard′s precursors and contemporaries – Freud, McLuhan, Foucault – and examines his more original preoccupations with `simulacra′, terrorism and pornography. Kellner provides a critical and scholarly analysis which will stimulate debate in its own right and will provide a valuable resource and introduction to Baudrillard for students of the social sciences, literary theory, and cultural and media studies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Polity Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0745604803
• ISBN 13: 9780745604800
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240